"file write failure"?

At the very bottom of my compiling command prompt I get a File write failure error. Note that this only happens when I run vvis and vrad; just vbsp works fine. Just to make sure I kept the filename at 8 characters or less, but that didn't help. And yes, I also got several dozen [color=yellow]WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-1440,-4512,-143) errors in the vrad section...they're probably related, but find it weird that it gets past all the warnings, proceeds apparently as normal, and then outputs that error after all of it. Any ideas? Any suggestions to fix the Too Many Light Styles error would also be appreciated (I tried searching AND it wasn't in the compile error tut, so...).[/color]

It wasn't there because the error message is in HL1 too. It means you
have too many lights with different names on one surface. Either name
them all the same (in each area) or leave basic light nameless.

Uh, all I've got is a light_environment.

Post your whole log.

Ok, here goes...

materialPath: C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\materials
Loading C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.vmf
Detected multiplayer map, building linux dedicated server data
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10 Processing areas... done (0)
Building Faces... done (1)
Chop Details... done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...
Merged 38 detail faces... done (0)
Merging details... done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (1)
writing C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.prt... done (0)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox sky_wasteland02...
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10
Building Physics collision data...
done (1) (417084 bytes)
Building Physics collision data...
done (1) (926882 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10
Writing C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.bsp
25 seconds elapsed

1 threads
reading c:\valve\hammer\maps\hl2\hl2 dm\hl2 dm\boatrace.bsp
reading c:\valve\hammer\maps\hl2\hl2 dm\hl2 dm\boatrace.prt
1861 portalclusters
5311 numportals
0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10 WARNING: Cluster portals saw into cluster
Optimized: 180800 visible clusters (0.00%)
Total clusters visible: 2888062
Average clusters visible: 1551
Building PAS...
Average clusters audible: 1860
visdatasize:874757 compressed from 893280
writing c:\valve\hammer\maps\hl2\hl2 dm\hl2 dm\boatrace.bsp
34 seconds elapsed

[Reading texlights from 'lights.rad']
[45 texlights parsed from 'lights.rad']

Loading c:\valve\hammer\maps\hl2\hl2 dm\hl2 dm\boatrace.bsp
9485 faces
9400905 square feet [1353730432.00 square inches]
85 displacements
60214 square feet [8670882.00 square inches]
9485 patches before subdivision
9485 patches after subdivision
6 direct lights
0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (10240,-4992,-143)
. .
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (9216,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (9216,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (9712,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (10208,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (8288,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (8688,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (8992,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (9184,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (9184,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (7070,-3677,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6629,-3508,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (7036,-3666,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6482,-3768,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5905,-3553,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6144,-3392,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6402,-3892,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6142,-4334,129)
. 7 . . .
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5264,-3072,-143)
8
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3568,-2304,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (4064,-2512,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3344,-2048,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3568,-2544,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (4064,-2544,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3344,-2544,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3344,-3040,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3600,-3040,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5950,-3485,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5656,-3938,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5200,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5264,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5120,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5616,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5616,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5616,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6112,-3440,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5104,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5104,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5859,-4345,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (6063,-4345,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5120,-4352,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5616,-4352,129)
.
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5120,-4112,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5616,-4112,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (4592,-4352,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5088,-4352,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (4096,-4304,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5104,-4112,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (5104,-4112,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3104,-3344,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3600,-3072,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3216,-3872,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3712,-3568,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3552,-4064,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3808,-4064,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3072,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3072,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3072,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2048,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2048,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2048,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2544,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2544,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2544,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3040,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3040,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3040,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3568,-4096,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3824,-4096,129)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3072,-4608,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3568,-4896,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3072,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2048,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2048,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2544,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2544,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3040,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (3040,-4512,-143)
.
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (256,-1200,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-1200,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-1280,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (256,-1280,1601)
. 9
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-145,-1056,1840)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-175,-1056,1840)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-512,-1200,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-576,-1200,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-592,-1200,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-592,-1280,1601)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-112,-1280,1601)
.
WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1024,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1024,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1024,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1520,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1520,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1520,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2016,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2016,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2016,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (496,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (496,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (496,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (992,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (992,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (992,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1024,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1024,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1520,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (1520,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2016,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (2016,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (0,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (496,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (496,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (992,-4992,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (992,-4512,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-1024,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-1024,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-1024,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-544,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-544,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-544,-4096,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-48,-3616,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-48,-3120,-143)

WARNING: Too many light styles on a face (-48,-4096,-143)

WAR

First, the compiler claims that you have six direct lights. So there can't be just the light_env. Try calling up the 'entity report' in hammer to find out how man lights you actualy have.

Second, why are you running Vbsp twice? look at the last block of text in your log. whats going on there? compare this with the first block, and you'll see that they are the same. Look at your compile setup and figure out why this happend.

[color=red]materialPath: C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\materials
Loading C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.vmf
Detected multiplayer map, building linux dedicated server data
fixing up env_cubemap materials on brush sides...
0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10 Processing areas... done (0)
Building Faces... done (2)
Chop Details... done (0)
Find Visible Detail Sides...
Merged 38 detail faces... done (0)
Merging details... done (0)
FixTjuncs...
PruneNodes...
WriteBSP...
done (0)
writing C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.prt... done (1)
Creating default cubemaps for env_cubemap using skybox sky_wasteland02...
Run buildcubemaps in the engine to get the correct cube maps.
Finding displacement neighbors...
Finding lightmap sample positions...
Displacement Alpha : 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10
Building Physics collision data...
done (1) (416062 bytes)
Building Physics collision data...
done (0) (925860 bytes)
Placing detail props : 0 . . . 1 . . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4 . . . 5 . . . 6 . . . 7 . . . 8 . . . 9 . . . 10
Writing C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.bsp
30 seconds elapsed

[/color]

For the 6 lights: actually, there are 5. 4 are part of the stoplight-style race starter (like Nascar? I think? lol, the racing games at least :razz: ) and one is the light environment.

Ok...I don't see what's the same here. Also, if it helps at all I'm using Batch Compiler, and this is the only map that I get this problem with. The batch file is:

<!--box-->
<TABLE cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=2 width="95%" align=center>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD style="FONT-SIZE: 11px">@echo off
echo ###################################################
echo # Batch Compiler #
echo ###################################################
echo ###################################################
echo # Please report bugs to: ryansgregg@hotmail.com #
echo ###################################################
echo.
echo Written At: 12/11/2004 2:05 AM
echo BC Version: 3.0.0.0
echo.
"C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\sourcesdk\bin\vbsp.exe" -low "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto failed
"C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\sourcesdk\bin\vvis.exe" -fast -low "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto failed
"C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\sourcesdk\bin\vrad.exe" -fast -low "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto failed
if not exist "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.bsp" goto nocopybsp
copy "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.bsp" "C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\maps"
echo boatrace.bsp copied to C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\maps.
:nocopybsp
if not exist "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.lin" goto nocopylin
copy "C:\Valve\Hammer\maps\HL2\HL2 DM\HL2 DM\boatrace.lin" "C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\maps"
echo boatrace.lin copied to C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\nanodeath@earthlink.net\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\maps.
:nocopylin
goto succeeded
:failed
echo.
echo There was a problem compiling your map, check your boatrace.log file for errors.
:succeeded
echo.

pause

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!--/box-->

Okay... so if you know where the lights are, try naming them all the same thing, or not naming them at all and see if this fixes the problem. If not, try deleting all but the light_env.

I'm still confused though as to why you had Vbsp appear twice in your log file.

Uh...the only thing I can think of is maybe it's possible that it appends to the log file instead of overwriting it, heh. I'll do what you suggested with the lights. Actually I'll just delete them for now, because that seems more likely to work...

Amazing, getting rid of the lights got rid of a Too Many Lights error, heh. Later I'll add them back in and see if setting a Maximus Distance helps coughwhydidn'tItrythatbeforecough